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Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!
Mother Jones
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Mother Jones
Age: 100 †
Born: 1830
Born: May 1
Died: 1930
Died: November 30
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I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery
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God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
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I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.
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I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
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I live in the United States, but I do not know exactly where. My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression.
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I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people
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And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.
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Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men
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The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!
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Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.
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My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
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You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
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Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation
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I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.
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I preferred sewing to bossing little children.
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I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.
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Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.
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If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!
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My friends, it is solidarity of labor we want. We do not want to find fault with each other, but to solidify our forces and say to each other: We must be together our masters are joined together and we must do the same thing.
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